There’s no hook to color its coverage: no illicit backstory behind its creation, no tears or emergencies worth covering, no friction between bandmates looming in its shadow.
It’s not something that requires several paragraphs worth of context to “get it”. It’s not a bold new direction or a foray into unknown waters, other than the prospect of bundling two separate vinyl records into a sleeve together. B ig Thief‘s fifth record, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, is a lot of things, so perhaps it’s best to start by stating what it’s not.
